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    English Ms. Long/ Mr. Young The Japanese American Internment Was the Japanese American internment right to create? In some people’s opinion they agreed that the internment camps were justified. “On February 14, 1942, I recommended to the War Department that the military security of the Pacific Coast required the establishment of broad civil control, anti-sabotage and counter-espionage measures, including the evacuation, there from of all persons of Japanese ancestry” (Dewitt 1). Some people may

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    Japanese-American Internment Analysis When Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942,1 thousands of Japanese-American families were relocated to internment camps in an attempt to suppress supposed espionage and sabotage attempts on the part of the Japanese government. Not only was this relocation based on false premises and shaky evidence, but it also violated the rights of Japanese-Americans through processes of institutional racism that were imposed following the events

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    Japanese internment camps from 1942 to 1946 were an exemplification of discrimination, many Japanese Americans were no longer accepted in their communities after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. They were perceived as traitors and faced humiliation due to anti-Japanese sentiment causing them to be forced to endure several hardships such as leaving behind their properties to go an imprisoned state, facing inadequate housing conditions, and encountering destitute institutions. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

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    commenters insisted on removing Japanese and Japanese Americans because, according to them, they were a threat to this nation. Executive order 9066 allowed US Military to move people of Japanese descent, or anyone that posed a threat, into “relocation camps”. Military officials managed to relocate 110,000 Japanese, including citizens, into these camps. The internment camps were kept open, up until the year 1946. Most of these “required” relocation of Japanese and Japanese Americans happened in the western

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    The Internment of Japanese Americans By Angel Willis-Pahel The topic I choose to right about is the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. The question that I intend to answer today is: The Constitution guarantees American citizens no imprisonment without due process of law, yet has been violated by the federal government in at least two American wars. How did the government justify interning Japanese-American citizens in World War II? In order to understand why this happened we have to first

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    pointing to the innocence of Japanese immigrants living in America, racial bias and irrational fears lead to the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans. When Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, wartime paranoia and discrimination spread through the US like wildfire. Fueled by fear of espionage, Franklin D. Roosevelt issues an order that relocates Japanese Americans to internment camps for an indefinite amount of time. The PBS article “Children of the Camps: Internment History” includes objective

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    Feeling Unwelcomed The Japanese internment was a very horrid moment for Japanese Americans living in America after the bombing of Pearl Harbor that killed more than 2,500 people. The outcome of this led to Japanese Americans being discriminated solely based on their race, of Japanese ancestry. Many Americans put the blame towards Japanese Americans because of the tragic event at Pearl Harbor after the attack the president at the time, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9006

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    divided due to the fear of espionage and sabotage, forms of spying which could help aid the enemy in war. This division promoted distrust, discrimination and violence toward Japanese immigrants and their children. To offset these fears resulting from war, Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadian citizens were forced into internment camps, resulting in a heightened sense of tension upon arrival home and finally the compensations of both US and Canadian governments By 1942, the tensions of war had drastically

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    were dropped on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the American people’s fear of the Japanese grew dramatically, especially for those Japanese living in America. Almost every Japanese American was seen as a threat to the country. On February 19th, 1942, Executive Order 9066 was issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, authorizing the relocation of Japanese Americans to camps further inland. Over 175,000 Japanese Americans were affected in some way by the order, even though more than 70,000 of them

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    Introduction After World War I, the Japanese thought the United States was weak. America did not want to get involved in World War II. So the Japanese figured they could defeat the United States. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese invaded the United States and attacked. It was a very devastating event. So many lives were taken and there was so much damage. This was known as the Attack of Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt and his executives felt pressured by the Japanese Americans, so he created the Executive

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